EMC World has evolved into one of the largest storage events in the industry, taking second place only to VMworld. While the event clearly has an EMC bend to it (it is after all EMC World) there are plenty of…
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Tagged with: All-Flash, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, EMC, EMC World, ViPR, XtremIO
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Briefing Note: The Cloud is Now as Fast as the SMB
Cloud-based services, like backup and disaster recovery, offer attractive alternatives for many SMBs. They’re simple to set up and operate, can be scaled easily and paid for on a monthly basis. But companies typically have to give something up, usually…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, SMB, Zetta
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The All-Flash Problem… Reality
The concept of an all-flash array once seemed impossibly expensive, but now almost a dozen companies ship a storage system that has no hard disk drives inside. The bigger question is if and when the entire data center can become…
Briefing Note: SIOS Provides High Availability for Azure based MS-SQL
Data centers of all sizes are looking to the cloud to perform computational workloads like databases and other applications. They are expecting a cloud provider to either run the entire workload in the cloud or make capacity available for bursting…
Tagged with: Azure, Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, Replication, SAN, SANLess, SIOS Technology
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How does Data Loss Happen and How can it be Stopped?
A recent blog by B&L Associates brought to light the problem of data loss. The entry cites surveys from Kroll Ontrack and EMC, which indicated that organizations see data loss as their single most significant risk and that the cost…
Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Data Loss, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Protection, Replication, Snapshots, TechTarget
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Webinar: Using the Cloud to Create a Truly All-Flash Data Center
For years vendors have been trying to drive down the cost of flash so that the all-flash data center can become reality. The problem is that even the rapidly declining price of flash storage can’t keep pace with the rapidly…
The Three Steps to an All-Flash Data Center you can afford
Most data does not need to be on flash storage. It is either seldom accessed, or improving the speed of its access won’t impact application performance or user productivity. But there is a core set of data in the data…
Analyst Blog: Are there Problems with Software Defined Storage?
In a recent article we discussed three potential problems with software defined storage (SDS). When we write these types of articles the goal is to bring to light areas of consideration for IT professionals contemplating taking the SDS plunge. The…
Tagged with: Converged, Disaster recovery, FUD, Replication, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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How Software-defined Storage is Enabling Snapshot-based Data Protection
Snapshots are powerful tools for creating a primary storage data protection system, one that offers faster recovery and can even replace traditional backup altogether. But protecting against primary storage system failure, which would render the snapshots useless, requires a second…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Protection, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage
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Briefing Note: Convergence for the SME gets simpler with Scale Computing Hypercore 6.0
Most converged infrastructures are designed to help enterprise data centers rapidly roll-out virtual infrastructures. As we discuss in our column “What Are Converged Infrastructures? – Hardware Convergence” many of these converged systems are a pre-integrated optimization of independent hardware solutions.…
Tagged with: Backup, Converged Infrastructure, Disaster recovery, dr, Scale Computing, SME, Virtualization
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